Lots of chicken wire. Where I gardened in Pennsylvania, every fall we wrapped almost everything in chicken wire: holy, yucca, evergreen shrubbery, mock orange, .... And an 8 foot fence around the young golden willow.

What did not get eaten: Hellebore, hosta, iris, day lily, and the bloody weeds!

The, now 84, owner has been gardening there for 60 years. She has counted as many as 60 deer in the field in front of her home. And still she gardens on.